On Sun, 31 Oct 2010, William Warren wrote: > To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> > From: William Warren <hescominsoon at emmanuelcomputerconsulting.com> > Subject: Re: [CentOS] PATA Hard Drive woes > > On 10/31/2010 3:27 PM, Keith Roberts wrote: >> Hi All. >> >> Yesterday I was installing Centos 5.5 to my web server, and >> it looks like the main hard drive has gone AWOL. >> >> Fedora 12 put the file system into r/o mode. >> >> The drive is an Hitachi, still under warranty. >> >> There are bad sectors on it, and running the Hitachi DFT >> tool confirms this. Also I cannot repair the bad sectors. >> >> Would this be caused by a faulty I/O chip, or is it safe to >> say it's definately the HDD at fault? >> >> Kind Regards, >> >> Keith Roberts >> > hdd at fault OK - thanks for confirming that Bill. I'll remove it and take it back for replacement. Keith